Robert J Sawyer
2) Rollback
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Accepting a rollback, an expensive, experimental rejuvenation procedure, for herself and her husband of sixty years in exchange for deciphering a message from aliens, Dr. Sarah Halifax is faced with a dilemma when the procedure works on her husband, making him physically twenty-five again, but not on her, leaving her in her eighties.
3) WWW, wake
Author
Series
WWW trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Receiving an implant to restore her sight, math genius Caitlin's life is changed in ways she could have never imagined when she suddenly begins to see a world beyond reality and an incredible realm that others cannot.
4) WWW: Wonder
Author
Series
WWW trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Caitlin Decter, a formerly blind sixteen-year-old math genius, desperately wants to protect her friend, Webmind--the consciousness that sprang from the infrastructure of the World Wide Web--but the Pentagon views him as a threat.
5) WWW: watch
Author
Series
WWW trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When Webmind, an emerging consciousness, befriends Caitlin Decter to learn about her world, a secret government agency, WATCH, believes Webmind is a risk to national security and wants it destroyed, despite Caitlin's acceptance and belief in her new friend.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such 'revelatory and thought-provoking'* novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella 'Identity Theft' and his Aurora Award-winning short story 'Biding Time,' and set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper... Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the...
7) Mindscan
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Transplanting his consciousness into an android body in order to escape death, Jake Sullivan falls in love with the android Karen, a situation that is further complicated when Jake's biological body takes hostages and demands its mind back.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
The new novel by Canada's top Science Fiction writer. In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth's first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But when disaster strikes, the astronauts and the prisoners must download back into physical reality and find a way to work...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
When a physics experiment goes horribly wrong everyone in the world is left unconscious for two minutes while their minds journey 20 years forward in time to give them a glimpse of the future. Some discover that they don't exist in 20 years, others find that their lives have taken a wrong turn. When the entire world wakes from unconciousness they discover that the suddenness of the sleep has left many people dead or injured, and that they must try...